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 from Reynolds. In 1763 gained first premium from Society of Arts, and in 1764, in competition with Romney, the award of 100 guineas for his St. Paul preaching to the Britons, now the altarpiece of the church at High Wycombe. Was a member of the Society of Artists, and its vice-president in 1773; but fell into dissipated habits and neglected art. Created R. A. in 1779, by special grant from the king, but did not live to receive his diploma. Better known by his drawings than his pictures. Left many etchings. Works: King John granting Magna Charta; Vortigern and Rowena; St. Paul preaching to the Britons; Battle of Agincourt; Progress of Vice; Progress of Virtue; Portrait of himself, National Portrait Gallery.—Redgrave; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; F. de Conches, 301.

MORTO DA FELTRE, of Feltre, born at Feltre in 1474, killed in battle of Zara, 1519, according to Vasari, though a fresco of 1522 has been ascribed to him. Venetian school; supposed identical with Pietro Luzzi, son of Bartolommeo, who was appointed surgeon to city of Zara, in 1476, and died there in 1530. Pietro or Morto, who, from his father's residence in Zara is sometimes called Zarato or Zarotto, went in 1495 to Rome, in 1506 to Florence, and in 1508 to Venice, where, according to Ridolfi, he became the disciple of Giorgione, whose mistress he seduced, and whose death he caused (1511) from grief. He afterwards settled at Feltre. But few of his works remain. He is at his best in the altarpiece in the church at Villabruna.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 219; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ix. 106; vii. 87; Burckhardt, 728; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 606.

MOSCHELES, FELIX, born in London in 1833. Figure and portrait painter, son of the eminent composer, Ignaz Moscheles; studied in Paris and under Van Lerius in Antwerp. Studio in London; exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Visited New York in 1883 and 1884. Works: Grief, Spanish Boy (1878); Spanish Song (1879); Basket-Making in Granada; Little Mozart's Own Choir; Daughter of Herodias (1882); Zuppa al fresco—Bordighera (1883); Portraits of Mazzini, Gounod, Rubinstein, Robert Browning, Henry M. Stanley, President Cleveland.

MOSCHER, JACOB VAN, flourished in 1613-50. Dutch school; landscape painter, mentioned as master of the guild at Delft in 1613-14, worked at Haarlem in 1640-50, where Adriaan van Ostade painted the figures in his pictures. Works: Field Path along Low Hill, Lowland Village, Old Pinakothek, Munich.

MOSENGEL, ADOLF, born in Hamburg, Jan. 1, 1837, died there, June 12, 1885. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; studied in Paris, and in Geneva in 1861 under Calame. Works: Alp Arpitetta in Val d'Anniviers; Westphalian Landscape; The Mowers; Sunshine before Rain; Alpine Scene.—Müller, 379.

MOSER, LUCAS, 15th century, born at Weil, Suabia. German school; known by an altarpiece in church at Tiefenbronn, between Calw and Pforzheim, which contains carefully modelled and pleasing heads painted in warm colour. The hands and feet are strikingly true to nature. In the Carlsruhe Gallery are five wings of an altarpiece painted in the style of this master.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 383; Kugler (Crowe), i. 129; Schnaase, vi. 469; W. & W., ii. 92.

MOSES AND BURNING BUSH, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco on ceiling. Moses, as a shepherd, with his face hidden in his hands, kneeling before the burning bush, from which the Lord is issuing, attended by angels and seraphim. In this work the grandeur of Michelangelo is